....Over 50 short forms (experimental films, documentaries, music videos, commercials), awards for best experimental film (for "1.72" at the Belgrade Alternative Festival), best MTV and Billboard video (for Arrested Development's "Tennessee," which also made Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 best videos ever), screenplay and direction on "Before The Rain" (1994) and "Dust" (2001).
...."Before The Rain" won thirty awards at international festivals, including best film in Venice, Independent Spirit, an Oscar nomination, and a place in The New York Times' book "Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made."
....Author of a book of fiction "The Ghost Of My Mother" and a book of photographs "Street" (accompanying an exhibition); fiction and essays published in New American Writing, La Repubblica, Corriere della Sera, Sineast, etc. Performance art with the group 1AM (founder) and by himself.
....Lives in New York City. Teaches Directing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate Film & TV.
Photographed by
Chico de Luigi